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Barracuda 7200.8 PATA Product Manual, Rev. F

2.2

Formatted capacity

2.2.1

LBA mode

When addressing these drives in LBA mode, all blocks (sectors) are consecutively numbered from 0 to n–1,
where n is the number of guaranteed sectors as defined above.

See Section 4.1.2, "Identify Device command" (words 60-61 and 100-103) for additional information about 48-
bit addressing support of drives with capacities over 137 Gbytes.

2.3

Default logical geometry

2.4

Recording and interface technology

Model

Formatted
capacity

Guaranteed
sectors Bytes

per

sector

ST3400832A

400 Gbytes

781,422,768

512

ST3400632A

400 Gbytes

781,422,768

512

ST3300831A

300 Gbytes

586,072,368

512

ST3300631A

300 Gbytes

586,072,368

512

ST3250823A

250 Gbytes

488,397,168

512

ST3250623A

250 Gbytes

488,397,168

512

ST3200826A

200 Gbytes

390,721,968

512

Cylinders

Read/write heads

Sectors per track

16,383

16

63

Interface

ATA

Recording method

16/17 EPRML

Recording density BPI (bits/inch max)

728,000

Track density TPI (tracks/inch avg)

120,000

Areal density (Mbits/inch

2

avg)

91,560

Spindle speed (RPM) (± 0.2%)

7,200

Internal data-transfer rate (Mbytes/sec max)

95

Sustained data transfer rate OD (Mbytes/sec max)

65.0

I/O data-transfer rate (Mbytes/sec max)

100 (Ultra DMA mode 5)

Interleave

1:1

Cache buffer

ST3400832A, ST3300831A, ST3250823A and ST3200826A

8 Mbytes (8,192 kbytes)

ST3400632A, ST3300631A, and ST3250623A

16 Mbytes (16,384 kbytes)